Medpost Urgent Care Case Study History

Since the establishment of Intermountain Health Care, they have grown to become an internationally recognized system of 22 hospitals, a medical group with more than 185 physician clinics, and an affiliated health insurance company. They have been recognized for their achievements and innovations in the development of systems and management, in order to produce effectiveness and efficiency within the processes of healthcare through high quality services and minimisation of costs. Intermountain Health Care’s performance has proved to be advancing exponentially as of the mid 90s, due to clinical-improvement projects routinely showing significant cost savings.

Health care costs have continued to rise. To combat these rising costs, health care providers have altered their menu of offerings. The evolution of the health care menu is predicated on keeping costs under control while providing critical health care services. While the evolution of coverage continues many providers have adopted some form of managed care. Manage care operations (MCO) are not a new notion to health care. The origins of managed care can be traced back to at least 1929, when Michael Shadid, a physician in Elk City, Oklahoma, established a health cooperative for farmers in a small community without medical specialists or a nearby general hospital. Michael Shadid sold shares in order to raise

The profession of accounting is a one that is highly regulated, due to the knowledge and power each accountant possesses. Although an accountants duties differ from one position to the next, the main sectors that accountants pursue are auditing or taxation. Auditing is ensuring the public that the information listed on the financial statements of public companies is free of material misstatements. While taxation is helping people or companies file their tax returns to the federal government or offering tax advice. In the world of auditing, you either follow the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), for public company audits, or the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), for other entities

For backfill purposes, Urgent Care Department will need the following Ancillary FTE's to support 2017 anticipated membership growth and improve department budget status: 2.1 LVN's. Per November's YTD Budget Report department is overbudget by $2,431.443. Part of overbudget costs included replacing LVN's that were on medical leave, vacation,

The present document is a summary of the executive interview held at Midtown Imaging building located at 5405 Okeechobee Boulevard suite 101, West Palm Beach, FL 33417, on December 8, 2016 from 2:45 to 3:45 PM between Ernst Pierre, the Northwood student and Mr. Alan M. Levine, RT (R) ARRT, Midtown Imaging department manager of Good Samaritan Medical center. The latter, a 333-bed hospital in West Palm Beach is owned by the Tenet Health, which is a healthcare services company that operates 79 hospitals, 20 short-stay surgical hospitals and 470 out-patient centers in the United States, and 9 facilities in the United Kingdom. Tenet Health has more than 130, 000 employees and more than 20,000 beds. The company collaborates with other healthcare services companies such as Conifer Health Solutions and United Surgical Partners International in order to enhance healthcare solutions throughout the care chain.

The PCAOB is charged with establishing and enforcing auditing, quality control, ethics and independence standards and rules for public company accountants. The SEC will not accept an audit report from an accounting firm that is not registered with the PCAOB. Thus, SEC reporting companies must engage the services of a registered public accounting firm. The PCAOB is funded by new fees imposed on publicly-traded companies based on their market capitalization – the fees range from as little as $100 for the very smallest companies to more than $1 million for a handful of the largest companies.[4]

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has many provisions. A few of the major provisions include the creation of the Public Company Oversight Board (PCAOB), Section 201, 203, 204, 302, 404, 809, 902, and 906. The PCAOB was the first true oversight of the accounting industry. It oversees and creates regulations, and it will monitor and investigate audits and auditors of public companies. The PCAOB has the authority to sanction firms and individuals for violations of laws, regulations, and rules. Section 302 requires the CEO and CFO to certify that they reviewed the financial statements, and that they are presented fairly. Section 404 requires management to state whether internal control procedures are adequate and effective, and requires an auditor to attest to the accuracy of the statement. Section 902 states that “It is a crime for any person to corruptly alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal any document with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official

On July 30, 2002, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was signed into law by President Bush. "The Act mandated some reforms to enhance corporate responsibility, enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting fraud" (SEC.Gov. 2013 P. 1). The SOX Act also created the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) in response to numerous failures of the profession to fulfill its trusted role; to oversee the activities of the auditing profession (SEC.Gov, 2013. The auditing of financial statements is required for the protection of public investors; however the question that arises is whether or not all PCAOB members should be taken from the investments communities that use audited financial statements. The remaining of this

This is an opinion on rules 3210 and 3211, regarding the new disclosure requirements, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) placed on accounting firms who perform audits on public companies. The new rules require the disclosure of engagement partner names and certain other participants performing public company audits. The requirements help provide financial statement users more transparent information on who performed the audit work and a percentage of the overall audit.

Provide an outline of the framework and iterative process/processes that will take place to improve and optimize MedHost (MH) Security in all CHS facilities. Upon approval from the MH Security Oversight committee, discovery efforts will continue to define details, specific tasks, sequencing of events, etc. in order to create a project plan. In addition, the program and associated projects will be captured in Daptiv for oversight and transparency.

In terms of opportunity, Tenet entered a joint venture with John Muir Health in 2013 to gain market share and to improve patient care coordination in San Francisco Bay area. On the other hand, patients started to choose to have their complex procedures done in outpatient facilities instead of in acute care hospitals due to increased cost sharing, and more

Tenet is now a Fortune 500 company leading the healthcare industry in conjunction with their innovative and forward thinking approaches. The following paper describes Tenet’s organizational innovative standards and processes aligning it in being one of the best healthcare delivery systems in the United States.

MedStar Health is a vertically integrated not-for-profit organization that provides the best features of academic medicine and is recognized for their regionally and nationally for excellence in medical care across Maryland and Washington, D.C region. MedStar Health is one of “the largest healthcare providers consisting of 10 hospitals, MedStar Health Research Institute, MedStar medical group, with many other programs and services” (MedStar, 2015). In addition, to providing the largest health care service with over 77,000 associates and affiliated physicians, as well as providing the best

This is a group of 50 major national organizations which are directed to safe, affordable, reliable, equitable healthcare system in US with a mission oriented to achieve such vision with the help of coordinated and collaborative action plan. NPP focus is to ensure patients receive comprehensive, well-coordinated level of care at all the hospital settings. [18]

Physician-owned medical groups offered effective measure to get quality care and innovative structural setting. Hills Physician Medical Group located in Northern California embarked on very innovative approach by interlinking physicians-owned nearly 1,600 offices, 30 hospital and 15 urgent care centers (Emswiler & Nichols, 2009). This business model not only attracted informed patients but physicians whom wanted their business leadership to be heard as well. The health care providers use innovative financial incentive systems and cutting edge technology.